Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by josephg on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:37PM (#26963490)

I have the opposite experience with my 2016 MacBook Pro. It feels really sluggish to me now. 2 cores is nowhere near enough, and the integrated graphics chip doesn’t feel fast enough for everyday tasks if you have external monitors connected. I’m on a video call in discord the machine lags so much it’s unusable. Xcode with swift is basically useless - it lags so much sometimes doing who knows what that it drops keystrokes. I had the monitor stop working because of the design fault right before two back to back conferences. And the keyboard has been replaced once and is now having issues again. Compiling rust on the machine is about 8x slower than my new ryzen based development machine.

We’re in a golden age of cpu improvements. A dual core 2016 mbp isn’t good enough for me any more.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by inDigiNeous on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:48AM (#26968713)

Interesting. How much ram do you have ? Using a 4k external monitor ?

Just wondering, don't those cores still have HyperThreading or such, resulting in actually more cores than just 2 physical ones ?

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by selectodude on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:06AM (#26966191)

Ah, I have a quad core with a discrete GPU. Might make all the difference.

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